Posted on 10/08/2011 6:18:32 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Tepco Starts To Eject Hydrogen From Fukushima Plant - Kyodo
Published October 08, 2011
Tokyo Electric Power Co. (9501.T0), operator of the crisis-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, said Saturday it has started to discharge hydrogen with high concentration levels from a pipe connected to a reactor containment vessel at the plant, as a measure to prevent an explosion.
The utility said it has injected nitrogen into the pipe for the No. 1 reactor vessel to eject hydrogen found with high density of more than 60%. The hydrogen has been generated by radiation that dissolved water.
Tepco said it will make sure that the concentration level of hydrogen is lowered to less than 1% before removing the pipe and going ahead with a plan to connect a system to clean up radioactive materials in the vessel.
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Never let a business writer discuss technical issues.
Never let a business writer discuss technical issues.
Yeah! Seriously, how hard would it have been for him to write “Water subjected to ionizing radiation forms free radicals of hydrogen and hydroxyl, which can recombine to form gaseous hydrogen, oxygen, hydrogen peroxide, hydroxyl radicals, and peroxide radicals. “
How about, decompose water.
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